I have 2 disks, 1 80GB Maxtor and 1 40GB maxtor hard drive. I've configured them into dynamic drive in windows xp. 1 partition is C:/ which hold my operating system and few important data and D:/ is a Raid 0 section for games and pagefile. This setup has been working for 6 month. Yesterday, a friend of mine downloaded a file on my computer and got infected by a virus, thus corrupted the boot sector. The system had a BSOD and restarted after few minutes. So, i got my copy of windows xp disk and booted from it. From there i chose to repair my windows, and i typed in fixboot in C:/ drive. After 2 seconds, the screen says boot sector written successfully, or something like that. So i just rebooted and see if windows was fixed. Unfourtunaly, after the bios posted, the screen turned to black and only these words appeared on the screen, "Boot invalid ( or something close to taht). Then i decided to install another copy of windows xp on another spare disk 10GB and hoping to recover those data on the old dynmaic drives. But after i logged into a fresh copy of windows xp, one of the partition in the dynamic drive's size was changed from 40GB to 10mb. That is the partition where i wrote a new bootsector in. The only file in that partition was named " ?“Ë". The size is 1kb.
I opened Computer managment and went into disk managment section, there are 2 dynamic disks, 40GB and 80GB and a basic disk 10GB ( where my fresh copy of windows is on ). The dynamic disk diagram on the bottom all show the correct partition size. But when i looked on the top, I see that E:/drive ( used to be C:/) was Layout:simple Type:dynamic File System: Fat Capacity: 10mb Free space: 10mb Faulty: no.
Is it possible to convert the E:/ drive back to NTFS file system without formatting the drive and recover the existing data on the disk? If yes, what tools would i need to buy in order to to this job?
Many Great Thanks in advance
I opened Computer managment and went into disk managment section, there are 2 dynamic disks, 40GB and 80GB and a basic disk 10GB ( where my fresh copy of windows is on ). The dynamic disk diagram on the bottom all show the correct partition size. But when i looked on the top, I see that E:/drive ( used to be C:/) was Layout:simple Type:dynamic File System: Fat Capacity: 10mb Free space: 10mb Faulty: no.
Is it possible to convert the E:/ drive back to NTFS file system without formatting the drive and recover the existing data on the disk? If yes, what tools would i need to buy in order to to this job?
Many Great Thanks in advance